Queen of Earth

2015

US

89 min

15

Directed by: Alex Ross Perry

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit

UK release: 1 July 2016

Catherine (Moss) visits the lakehouse of her friend Virginia (Waterston) and, in struggling to get over the end of a relationship and the death of her artist father, entirely unravels. Extraordinary, intense study of the faltering friendship between two women, with brilliant work from Waterston and a barnstorming performance from Moss.

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While the influences on writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s fourth feature Queen of Earth may be writ large, his extraordinary film is far from a meaningless pastiche. For this story of two women dealing with the psychological fallout of grief and…